Textile fabric manufacture



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47 Claims.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in the ornamentation of fabrics produced from polychrome yarns by knitting or other well known methods of the textile art.

By a polychrome yarn is here meant a filament having sequentially in its length a plurality of differently colored stretches. The linear pattern may be repeated very frequently or in comparatively short lengths, or the pattern may be very long, such as to form a considerable area of fabric before repeating itself fully. A long repeat may, of course, contain stretches of short repeats.

By proper control of the placement in a fabric of yarns of the class of short patterns, (these will usually be so short as to repeat one or more times in a cycle of the machinei. e. in one course of a knitter, in one pick of a loom, etc.) a vast number of new geometric and color effects can be produced in fabrics. Furthermore, reliably uniform mixed and random effects can be produced by means of polychrome yarns. Heretofore practically all fabric ornamentation has been by changing the stitch or fabric structure or by alternating the use of two or more yarns of difierent solid colors.

Fabrics have been produced by hand weaving using yarns colored beforehand in appropriate spacings and tints. By laborious manual adjusting of such yarns or threads both in the warp and filler, irregular crude patterns could be produced. One example of this is the Japanese spotted tissue, known also as Kasuri.

It will be noted that fabric ornamentation of this sort involves no change in the weave or structure of the fabric as it does in all applications of the jacquard. The simplest and sheerest weaves and knitted structures may be used. This polychrome yarn method of fabric ornamentation gives equally clear color effects on both sides of the fabric and there are no wasteful or unsightly stretches of unnecessary threads on the back side.

The art of printing in color on steer muslins and the like comes the nearest in results to this new art of any now practiced save the above mentioned handicraft art. However, the effects attainable are not the same since prints are never full colored and presentable on the back of the fabric. The outlines of the figures in prints are very hard and mechanical, being independent of the threads or stitches of the fabric. The whole knitting art to which this new art of ornamentation is particularly adapted yields fabrics to which printing cannot be applied because they stretch too easily, are too thick and too resilient.

In contrast, by my invention knitted patterns can be produced which have a prearranged artistic regularity or softness of outline more pleasing than prints or even the best product of the jacquard.

Heretofore, in knitting the range of patterns 5 and effects obtainable by mingling and changing yarns was relatively limited. In weaving we deal with a large number of yarns particularly in the warp and a tremendous range of ornamentation is possible by varying the colors of these warp 1C yarns and varying their interweavings. In knitting, preferably a single yarn is used and by the very structure of knitted fabrics this yarn may not be changed too often. A considerable range of ornamentation is now practicable in knitters by various devices for dropping or varying the stitches, doubling or otherwise changing the yarn, introducing jacquard type pattern controls, etc. Nevertheless, knitted goods as heretofore produced were inherently restricted in ornamentation when compared to woven goods. My polychrome ornamentation therefore greatly enriches the knitting art. By the very nature of this invention involving the accurate positioning in the fabric of the colored yarns used, it is well adapted to cooperate with the various pattern knitting devices. If a knitter is equipped, for instance, with means to produce a diagonal or zig-zag double stitch line or a ladder or open stitch efiect it may be synchronized with the colored yarn feed of this invention so as to cooperate with the pattern wheel or stitch control in use, whereby the figures or shapes in the fabric structure may coincide with shapes or outlines of the color.

Any figure or representation, however complex, can be reduced to or embodied in a linear pattern. Suppose, for example, that a spray of flowers in three colors be stenciled on a plain woven or knit fabric. Let this fabric be then unraveled. The long unraveled yarn will then exhibit a certain definite sequence and extent of the three colors. If it were replaced in the fabric, millimeter per millimeter, just as it originally lay, the original figure, a three colored spray of flowers, would be recreated.

By this invention, such long repeats or long yarn patterns are also made possible, and the exact and planned building thereof of fabrics ornamented with figures. Means are shown to print such long patterns from a control sheet.

One of the objects of this invention is to provide a cheap and accurate control of the placement of polychrome yarns in fabrics.

Another object is the production of ornamental two dimensional patterns in fabrics by the prior 

